L'Œil du coach #79 : "Djokovic avait trop de pression à l'Open d'Australie"

Dans le dernier épisode de l’Œil du coach, Patrick Mouratoglou explique que la pression ressentie par Novak Djokovic a eu raison de lui.

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00:00 Even in Champions, when it's too much pressure,

00:02 sometimes they need to fail, and in a way they feel relieved.

00:05 And I would not be surprised if Novak would feel relieved after that tournament.

00:10 When Novak played against Manarino, he was up 6-0, 6-1,

00:17 and he played a bad game and he lost the game.

00:20 What struck me is what he said after the match.

00:22 "It was too much pressure to not lose one single game. I had to give away one."

00:26 He didn't do it on purpose, but he felt the pressure was too big.

00:30 Now, when you think about Novak at the Australian Open,

00:32 he didn't lose one match at the Australian Open since 2018.

00:36 He never lost a semifinal at the Australian Open.

00:38 He won 10 titles here, and in a way, it brought so much pressure.

00:43 Imagine he would win again. That would be crazy.

00:46 That's too much. And of course, he didn't do it on purpose, for sure not,

00:49 but subconsciously, he wanted to take it out of the way.

00:53 "OK, let's lose one. It's just too much for me. I can't anymore."

00:56 Kind of the same feeling as the one he had against Manarino.

00:59 The fact that he said that against Manarino makes me feel that there is something there.

01:04 During the semifinal, Djokovic played a match that is one of the worst I've seen from him.

01:12 He wasn't there. He was definitely not on that court on that day.

01:15 He was slow, no energy, no enthusiasm.

01:20 Even his attitude, that is always so angry, even when he's winning,

01:25 when there are pressure moments, he gets angry, he shouts at his box.

01:28 He was flat, completely flat.

01:31 Against Sinner, he was just missing everything.

01:33 The fact that Sinner didn't have one break point to defend the whole match says it all.

01:37 So that was very shocking to see Novak in a semifinal of a Grand Slam,

01:42 and even more at the Australian Open, that is in a way his home,

01:45 Slam, being so unable to play.

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